Ballad novels
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Ballad novels volume 1
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The Hamelin High School class of 1966 plans a grand reunion. In the meantime, a famous singer has bought the town mansion and is stalked by a killer.
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Ballad novels volume 2
Pub. Date
c1992
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Laura Bruce, wife of a minister in Appalachia, experiences dangers after she is asked by the sheriff to help tend the survivors from a scene of carnage at a farm.
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Ballad novels volume 3
Pub. Date
c1994
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In the Appalachians, a historian writing on Katie Wyler, a young woman kidnapped from the area by Indians in 1789, sets out to retrace her tragic journey. He is unaware her spirit haunts the hills, nor is he aware that an escaped convict is on the loose.
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Ballad novels volume 4
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Randall Stargill's imminent death stirs up the living and the dead, with a real estate developer poised to snap up the Stargill's Appalachian farm, Randall's four sons trying to deal with each other and the demands left by their dying father, and an old sweetheart hoping to lay a long-held secret to rest.
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One hundred years after a woman is hanged, the search for justice reveals a story of faith, obsession, and murder.
In 1832, 18-year-old Frankie Silver was charged with murdering her young husband. In 1833, she became the first woman in the state of North Carolina to be hanged for murder. But was she guilty? More than 100 years later, Tennessee sheriff Spencer Arrowood is determined to reveal the truth behind this unanswered question. A spellbinding...
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Ballad novels volume 6
Pub. Date
c2001
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Folksinger Lark McCourry retraces the history of a family song, which she had heard from her North Carolina relatives as a child, back to eighteenth-century Scotland to young Malcolm MacQuarry.
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Ballad novels volume 8
Pub. Date
2010
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1st ed.
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Journalists descend on a remote town in Virginia in 1934 to cover the trial of Erma, 21, a mountain girl with a teaching degree, accused of killing her father--a drunken tyrant. Carl, 18, a novice journalist from Tennessee, accurately reports the trial while other journalists allow their stories to be manipulated. As a result, Carl is accused of perjury and turns to his cousin Nora Bonesteel, gifted with the 'sight,' to help prove he wrote a truthful...
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2011
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1st ed.
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A story inspired by a true crime made famous by the Kingston Trio's folk song recording reimagines the events surrounding the murder of North Carolina mountain girl Laura Foster and the hanging of her lover, Tom Dula, in a meticulously researched account that reveals additional information that may prove Dula's innocence.
10) King's mountain
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Ballad novels volume 10
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The American Revolution takes a personal toll on John Seiver when he's forced to divert his attention from fighting Indians in the Carolinas to protect his settlement's farms and families from a British officer who thinks quite highly of himself.
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Ballad novels volume 11
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Suddenly thrust into the role of primary caretaker for her family following the tragic death of her husband, Ellie Robbins is appointed to serve out his term as sheriff of their rural Tennessee mountain town. The year is 1936, and her role is largely symbolic, except for the one task that only a sheriff can do: execute a convicted prisoner. Ellie has long proven she can handle herself. But becoming sheriff is altogether different, and the demands...
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Nora Bonesteel's Christmas past: a Ballad novella
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